Outcome after incomplete spinal cord injury: Central cord versus Brown-Sequard syndrome

Spinal Cord

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 407-414

  Wirz, M ^a   Zorner B ^b   Rupp, R ^c,d   Dietz, V ^a,d  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Found Orthopedic University Clinic   (Germany)

^d European Multicenter Study of Human Spinal Cord Injury ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brown Sequard syndrome; Central cord syndrome; Electrophysiology; Quadriplegia; Recovery of function; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; CENTRAL CORD SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BROWN-SEQUARD SYNDROME; CENTRAL CORD SYNDROME; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952240572     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2009.149     Document Type: Article

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